Daniel 2:38-40

Lexham English Bible

³⁸ and also human beings wherever they dwell,^[a] the animals of the field and the birds^[b] of heaven^[c]—he has given into your hand and made you ruler over all of them—you are the head of gold. ³⁹ And after you another kingdom inferior to yours will arise, and another third kingdom of bronze that will rule over the whole earth. ⁴⁰ And a fourth kingdom will be strong as iron, and just as^[d] iron crushes and smashes everything,^[e] and as iron shatters all of these other metals, so it will crush and it will shatter these nations.